Dear Lee, My deepest condolences on your loss! Bless you for caring for little Bunny! Mally
Sent from my iPhone. > On Oct 31, 2013, at 20:02, "Bonnie Hogue" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lee > Condolences on the loss of your little Bunny. Sounds like she had a good > life with you, Samson and Delilah. You did all you could. I wish you luck > in helping the others, and hope your heart break heals soon, through the > memory of your furry friend. > Peace > Bonnie > > From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee > Evans > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:50 PM > To: Felvtalk > Subject: [Felvtalk] Bunny Passed Away This Evening > > She came to me two and a half years ago when she was around 9 months old. She > had been abandoned at an apartment complex, rescued but then tested FeLv+. > She was brought to me to see if she would turn negative. She did! I kept her > anyway because she had a few bad habits, like biting my fingers when I was > sleeping and trying to tear apart my iPod headphones. She was very > mischievous. I named her Bunny because she was brought to me on Easter > Sunday. She has lived with me and two other cats in my bedroom/home office > since that Easter in 2011. About two weeks ago I noticed a change in her > behavior. She no longer pestered Delilah, the resident female cat in the room > and she seemed to lose interest in sleeping on the bed with me and Samson and > Delilah (the two other cats in the room). However she was eating normally and > nothing else seemed out of place. I assumed that it was the change in the > weather from very hot to nice, cool evenings and then to rain. On Saturday of > last week she seemed lethargic. She was not eating her usual amount of food > and not drinking her usual amount of water. I checked her gums to see if it > might be stomatitis or some bad tooth upsetting her but her gums were very > pale and so was her tongue. I immediately thought it was flea anemia. I took > her to the vet on Tuesday because Monday is usually very busy with dogs > there. She was more lethargic and depressed by then and her appetite had all > but disappeared. She was still drinking water. She had no fleas so I asked > the vet to re-test her for FeLv. Sure enough, she was positive. She had all > the classic symptoms of active FeLv. I was heart broken but still, I asked > him to give her some meds to make her more comfortable and perhaps get back > her appetite. He gave her cortisone. Today, she was no better. She just lay > on her towel and couldn't make it to the litter box although it was just a > few steps away. I took her in again and he gave her some fluids, not too much > because he said it would make her even more anemic. He gave her a little more > cortisone to try to kick start her appetite. I had been syringe feeding her > by then. He also gave her a small dose of Convenia and some B-complex but > nothing helped. She passed several hours after the vet visit. I probably > should have had him help her pass but I just didn't want to give up hope. > > There is a question here, in all this upsetting dialog. My other two cats who > slept with me and Bunny and groomed each other, ate with each other, drank > and used the same litter box are around 7 years old. The vet told me that > once they are into adulthood, they are not as likely to get FeLv as they > would if they were under 2 years old. Is this true? I will have them tested > in about 3 weeks anyway to see what happened, if anything. Also, has anyone > had the experience of a young cat throwing off the virus and turning > negative, then turning positive again after a year, or was that second test > after I had held her in isolation for 4 months a false negative? > > Right now I'm fostering a kitten who has tested negative for FIV/FeLv. She is > several rooms away from where Bunny has lived. They never came in contact > with each other but I have walked from my bedroom into the kitten's room to > feed, clean, etc.. Did I put her at risk? > > This is desperately upsetting. I have decided not to take in any more fosters > with FeLv. I have never had this happen before. Most of my "turned" cats are > still with me and are well into several years of adulthood. I usually don't > have good results with getting turned cats adopted because most people don't > want the possibility that the cat is harboring the disease. Maybe Bunny had > it in her bone marrow and tested negative on the regular SNAP test. I should > have tested with the IFA also but don't have much money to spare. > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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